The greenhouse gas emissions produced by the UK military and its supply chain are up to 11 times higher than admitted by the Ministry of Defence, which has produced a ‘pattern of flawed reporting’ on its environmental impacts, new research carried out for Declassified UK has found.
Military
The British Armed Forces are using Covid-19 to solve a recruitment crisis and to heal their damaged reputation
by MATT KENNARD | 13 May 2020
TAGGED: Coronavirus
The UK Ministry of Defence is using the Covid-19 pandemic to reverse a long-term recruitment crisis, which has seen it miss its enlistment targets for the past six years, and to repair damage to its reputation from the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
British ministers, complicit in millions of deaths since 1945, won’t face justice over coronavirus
by MARK CURTIS | 2 May 2020
TAGGED: Coronavirus
The UK government’s failure to provide protective equipment to all health staff treating coronavirus victims prompts questions over whether ministers are legally culpable for failing to prevent deaths. But ministers routinely act with impunity and every prime minister since 1945 has been complicit in deaths abroad.
Labour Party officials secretly blacklisted Britain’s anti-war activists
by PHIL MILLER | 15 April 2020
TAGGED: Iraq
A leaked report appears to show evidence that some of the most highly-paid Labour Party staffers wanted their party to lose the UK general election in 2017, and that they actively campaigned against anti-war activists within the party.
Despite lockdown, the UK military still flies, risking the spread of coronavirus
by MATT KENNARD | 2 April 2020
TAGGED: Coronavirus, Cyprus
Since air travel was largely locked down to curb the spread of coronavirus, the UK military has airlifted personnel to at least six countries that have banned British travellers or flights — potentially moving thousands of troops.
The UK will spend over £350bn on extravagant military projects while failing to ensure national health security
by MARK CURTIS | 25 March 2020
TAGGED: Coronavirus, Nuclear
New analysis shows that Britain plans to spend hundreds of billions of pounds on expensive military projects while the UK’s under-funded public health system struggles to address pandemics such as Covid-19.
Coronavirus exposes who Britain’s national security industry is designed to protect – not the public
by NAFEEZ AHMED | 21 March 2020
TAGGED: Coronavirus
The British government has long been aware of the looming inevitability of an imminent pandemic flu crisis. Yet coronavirus starkly illustrates how outmoded and dangerous the UK establishment’s national security paradigm really is.
UK could double supply of medical ventilators with money spent on foreign military bases
by PHIL MILLER | 19 March 2020
Exclusive: British army earns money recruiting police for Singapore in ‘bizarre’ colonial-era scheme
by PHIL MILLER | 13 March 2020
TAGGED: Nepal, Singapore
Explainer: Is the UK a rogue state? 17 British policies violating domestic or international law
by MARK CURTIS | 7 February 2020
TAGGED: Argentina, Assange, Chagos Islands, GCHQ, Israel, MI5, MI6